GRE Word List
JUXTAPOSE
to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect)
The meaning of the word juxtapose is to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| quizzical | comically quaint |
| pang | a brief piercing spasm of pain |
| decorum | literary and dramatic propriety : fitness |
| menace | a show of intention to inflict harm : threat |
| enrapture | to fill with delight |
| unexceptionable | not open to objection or criticism : beyond reproach : unimpeachable |
| comeuppance | a deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts |
| grovel | to creep with the face to the ground : crawl |
| indentation | the blank space produced by indenting : indention |
| devout | committed or devoted to religion or to religious duties or exercises |